PROJECT FILES FOR:  
	
	Assessing the validity of the Manifesto Common Space Scores.
	Jan-Erik Flentje, Thomas König, Moritz Marbach

	Please contact Moritz Marbach <mmarbach@mail.uni-mannheim.de> if
	you have any problems or questions with these replication files. 

	April 12, 2017
	


INSTRUCTIONS 
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replication.R replicates the results from the paper using the dataset of 
party positions (MannheimPartyPositions.Rdata) we compiled from various sources. 

The code for the data compilation is in the folder "makeData". Unfortunately, 
not all raw data files are public: 

Input file ZA3521_v2-0-1.dta
 available at https://dbk.gesis.org/dbksearch/sdesc2.asp?no=3521

Input file cmp_merge.rda
 from Sven-Oliver Proksch via email. 

Input file pp_dataset.dta
 from Thomas Bräuninger via email. 

Input file PPMD_summary_data.csv
 available at https://www.tcd.ie/Political_Science/ppmd/

Input file AJPS_Bawn_Somer-Topcu_data1.csv
 available at https://my.vanderbilt.edu/somertopcu/publications/

Input file CastlesMair1984.csv
 available at http://www.parlgov.org/data/table/external_party_castles_mair/

Input file HuberInglehart.csv
 available at https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse.xhtml?alias=jhuber

Input file mcss.Rdata
 available at http://lspol2.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/Downloads/

Input file view_party.csv
 available at http://www.parlgov.org/data/table/view_party/

Input file link file for parties in EES.dta
 available at https://www.tcd.ie/Political_Science/staff/michael_marsh/ees_trend_file.php


sessionInfo() 
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R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin16.3.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Sierra 10.12.3

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] thankr_0.1.0.9000 xtable_1.8-2      stringr_1.1.0     cocor_1.1-3      
[5] tidyr_0.6.0       dplyr_0.5.0       colorout_1.1-2   

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] Rcpp_0.12.9     withr_1.0.2     digest_0.6.10   assertthat_0.1 
 [5] R6_2.2.0        DBI_0.5-1       git2r_0.15.0    magrittr_1.5   
 [9] httr_1.2.1      stringi_1.1.1   curl_2.2        lazyeval_0.2.0 
[13] devtools_1.12.0 tools_3.3.2     memoise_1.0.0   tibble_1.2     